Advisory - Strategy& Value Creation - Turnaround and Performance Improvement - Manager

Work with the client engagement teams across the network to support global engagements from the KSDC offices, while ensuring the highest quality of deliverables and innovative solutioning, to meet and exceed Client requirements. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of project workstreams or engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs are delivered on time and meet client expectations and commercial objectives. 

• Engage directly with clients to understand operational challenges and business requirements, structuring complex problems and defining tailored approaches to address client needs. 

• Lead the design, planning and delivery of operational improvement initiatives, managing multiple workstreams and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact. 

• Oversee the application of our bespoke digital analytics tools for clients, ensuring robust financial and operational analysis, effective data visualisation, and the generation of clear insights, recommendations and actionable business plans. 

• Lead analytical workstreams on Deals assignments, including macroeconomic research, company profiling, competitor benchmarking and financial benchmarking, while ensuring analytical quality and relevance to client objectives. 

• Manage project teams, including delegating tasks, reviewing analysis and deliverables, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring work is delivered to a high professional standard. 

• Actively manage project risks and delivery challenges, identifying issues early and implementing mitigation strategies while keeping senior stakeholders informed. 

• Lead or significantly contribute to proposals and business development activities, including preparing pitch materials, defining engagement approaches and supporting opportunity conversion. 

• Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact during engagements and identifying potential follow-on opportunities. 

• Contribute to the development of the Business Unit, including leading internal initiatives, improving methodologies and tools, and supporting the development and upskilling of team members.

Essential Skills & Experience 

• Strong problem-solving and commercial judgement, with the ability to independently structure complex problems, lead analytical workstreams, and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations for clients. 

• Proven ability to lead and manage project workstreams, including planning activities, allocating tasks, overseeing quality of analysis, and ensuring delivery against timelines and client expectations. 

• Experience managing and developing junior team members, providing guidance, reviewing outputs, and ensuring high-quality deliverables while supporting team development. 

• Strong analytical capability, including overseeing the collection, manipulation and interpretation of financial and non-financial data to generate insights that support strategic decision-making; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. 

• Ownership of client deliverables, including leading the development of clear, structured and impactful reports and presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. 

• Excellent client-facing, interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders, lead meetings and present findings in clear, high-quality business English (written and oral). 

• Strong project and delivery management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities, and ensure high-quality outcomes in fast-paced environments. 

• Strong understanding of operational business drivers, with the ability to guide teams beyond analysis to identify implications, shape recommendations and clearly articulate the “so what” to clients. 

• Solid understanding of working capital components and value drivers, with the ability to identify optimisation opportunities and support clients in implementing improvement initiatives. 

• Experience leveraging analytics and visualisation tools, including but not limited to Qualtrics, Alteryx and Power BI, to support insight generation and engagement delivery (relevant certifications such as Alteryx Core or Advanced are desirable). 

• Ability to contribute to engagement growth and opportunity development, including identifying follow-on opportunities, supporting proposals and contributing to business development activities. 

• Experience working effectively within globally dispersed teams, coordinating across geographies and stakeholders to deliver client engagements. 

• Working knowledge of emerging AI and digital tools, with the ability to identify opportunities to enhance analysis, delivery and client value 

Preferred Education 

• Qualification: Chartered Accountant or MBA